alt Hacker NewsI maintain Taffy: AMA.
I am currently in the process of building a wider browser engine / GUI toolkit on top of it (https://github.com/dioxuslabs/blitz). As part of that I am implementing a lot of the messier parts of CSS layout (floats, etc), and also grinding on fixing all the WPT tests which we track here: https://blitz.is/status/wpt/css/css-flexbox.
The vision is a complete standalone implementation of the web layout algorithms that can be easily embedded (with individual algorithms enabled/disabled on a pay what you use basis), and which can also be part of a modular ecosystem of browser engine components that make it easier for people to create new browser engines.
Beyond Blitz, some notable users are:
- Servo which uses it only for CSS Grid
- Zed which uses it via it's GPUI toolkit.
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Thanks for all this! I used Blitz a while ago for a product research spike around composing HTML to be rendered directly in a terminal with kitty or iterm's image protocol:
I used it in https://fschutt.github.io/printpdf for the HTML-to-PDF layout, just as a note. It is very useful, thanks for your work. Good luck on Blitz.
I used this for an internal project I can’t talk about, but it was a lifesaver. It allowed me to drop a really powerful layout system into a project that wasn’t doing traditional UI at all.
The results have been fantastic. Thank you for this awesome library. I love it.